The Watching Worlds
Ephesians 9-11
Introduction:
We always have an audience. Have you ever been pumping gas and saw those little signs at the pump that say, “Smile, you’re on camera”? I remember one time I was on lunch break and filled up with gas. After I got back into the office a call came in that surprised me. It was the gas station I just filled up at. They said if I didn’t come back and pay they were going to call the cops. They had me on video pumping and taking off without paying! Well I was embarrassed because I had gotten away with it so many times before. (Just Kidding!). I usually pay at the pump with my card but this time I didn’t. Apparently I was distracted and just got in my car like I normally do and took off forgetting that this time I didn’t pay at the pump and had to go in. Not only did I forget to pay, I forgot to smile for the camera! They had me on video, but they knew me and where I worked so they called me up and it worked out. The Gas Bandit was caught.
We always have an audience. If you’re at the bank or the ATM your being watched. If you have little one’s you know there is no such thing as private potty breaks - little hands banging on the door and shouts demanding to know what you’re doing. We always have an audience.
A recent article from CNN in November describes the increasing efforts of governments to watch the electronic activities of society. In 2011 governments from around the world asked Google for private account data 18,000 times. In 2012 that number jumped to 21,000. And Google is very cooperative as they have admitted that they grant 90% of the requests they receive. The country that makes the most requests by far Google said is the U.S. A senior analyst for Google, Dorothy Chou, said “One thing is for sure: Government surveillance is on the rise.” What does this mean? It means that it is safe to assume that in much of our lives we are watched. We have an audience.
Did you know that the Church of Jesus Christ is being watched? Paul talks about this in our passage this morning. Today’s sermon is titled simply: “The Watching Worlds”. I want to divide it into 3 sections: 1) Who is watching? 2) What are they watching? 3) Why are they watching?
WHO IS WATCHING?
Who is watching? That question has two answers. In verses 8-9 Paul speaks of a human audience. He says he has been commissioned to preach to the Gentiles in verse 8 and then in verse 9 he says that it is his responsibility to make known the administration of this mystery to everyone. Paul is speaking of a human audience. In Acts 19 we find that when Paul was in Ephesus ministering it says “the word of the Lord spread widely and grew in power”. He says in Colossians 1:23, “This is the gospel that you have heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven..” Through the ministry of Paul, God was making known the mystery that he has kept hidden in Himself throughout history.
We have been learning of this mystery over the last 2 chapters. The mystery is that Jew and Gentile are now brought together into one body – the Church. As a result, both are sharers together in the inheritance and the promise that is in Christ. No longer is there division between Jew and Gentile like there was before. Now, both come to God by faith in Christ (2:8-9; 4:5), both have been forgiven through the shed blood of Christ (1:7; 2:13), both are joined together to make a new man (2:15; 3:6), bother have equal access to the Father (2:18; 3:12), both have the Holy Spirit (1:13-14; 2:18, 22), both have been blessed with every spiritual blessing in Christ in the heavenly realms (1:3), and both will be made a cosmic display of the riches of God’s grace and kindness in the ages to come (2:7).
This mystery was not known about in the past before Christ and the NT Apostles. Gentile salvation was known about, but, Jew and Gentile being brought together and united into the same society without Jew having privilege over the Gentile was absolutely unthinkable, and unheard of. But while men could not imagine such a thing, it is exactly what God had been keeping as His secret until the time to reveal it arrived.
And when the time came, He continued the furthering of His own eternal purpose whereby He unfolded yet another layer of His secret plan. This plan Paul mentioned in 1:9-10 when he says, “And God made known the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment – to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.” God is working out His plans that He designed to be accomplished in and through His Son Jesus Christ. Everything in heaven and on earth will be summed up and headed up by Jesus Christ. This includes Jew, this includes Gentile, this includes the Church, this includes the nations, this includes the angels of various orders and ranks, the powers, principalities, authorities and rulers in the heavenly realms, both holy and evil.
In chapter 3 Paul says that this mystery of Jew and Gentile coming together is something that God revealed to Him. God made it known to Paul, and, this was for the purpose of Paul making it known to others. “I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace given me through the working of his power. Although I am the least of all God’s people this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery…” Paul’s work was for the watching world of mankind.
But in verse 10 we learn of another audience. This audience transcends the world we live in. This audience is not part of this world but they are watching this world. This audience is not human, but they are watching humans. This audience is the angelic audience that is observing, studying, watching, and looking at the work of God in this world. They are the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms. He spoke of angels in chapter 1 when he said, “Christ was raised from the dead and seated at God’s right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given..” He speaks of the fallen angels in chapter 6 when he says, “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” Now Paul says here in 3:10 that the angels are watching God’s work in this world, “It was God’s intent to make known the manifold wisdom of God to the rulers and authorities of the heavenly realms.” What God is doing is transcending my little life. What God is doing is transcending this little church. What God is doing transcends the whole Church from Pentecost until today. What God is doing is showing forth to angels the infinite andunsearchable riches of His wisdom through a body called the Church.
I wondered why Paul mentions here that the angels are an intended audience. Then I thought, well, maybe if we know a little about angels we can see why. What can we know about angels? Angels are spiritual beings that have been created by God. They are higher than mankind, that is, they are more powerful and more intelligent. There are holy elect angels and there are fallen angels called demons. The fallen angels fell when they joined their leader, Satan, in rebelling against God. The holy elect angels are messengers and servants of God. Hebrews 1:14 says, “Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?”
If you were to begin studying angels you would see very soon that angels have a particular interest in God’s salvation of sinful man. That verse in Hebrews says that they serve those who will inherit salvation. But listen now to what Peter says when he talks about salvation of men and how the angels have been interested in seeing it happen, “Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow. It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven.” (1 Peter 1:10-12) And then, seemingly out of nowhere Peter throws this next statement in: “Even angels long to look into these things.” These things? What are these things?
He is referring to man’s salvation, salvation that prophets foretold but didn’t fully understand, salvation through the gospel that was preached by men in the power of the Holy Spirit. Angels along with the prophets of old have been longing to look into and understand these things concerning the coming Savior and the salvation He was bringing for man. They didn’t know. They were kept in the dark. They were uninformed. They didn’t know how it was going to happen or really even what was going to happen.
Why are the angels longing to look into these things of salvation for mankind? Because it was an angel, a fallen angel that deceived man into sinning against God and making it necessary for God to have to save man (Gen. 3:1-7). It is fallen angels today who masquerade to men as angels of light and truth but are liars (2 Cor. 11: ). It is fallen angels who today that will not quit trying to deceive through their disseminating of false religions in this world – religions whose source is demonic and which have no power to save (1 Tim. 4:1-2). They bring false gospels into the world (Gal. 1:6-9). It is a fallen angel who blinds the eyes of the unbelievers so that they cannot see the light of the glorious gospel in the face of Jesus Christ so that they could be saved (2 Cor. 4:4). Satan and his demonic, fallen angels have not stopped and will not stop their lying, scheming, assaulting, murdering campaign against mankind to keep every last man and woman they can from taking the free salvation God has offered to man but has not offered to demons.
Satan and his angels sinned but unlike sinful man they are not offered salvation. God has no plan to spare any angel who has sinned. 2 Peter 2:4 says, “For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment.” Angels who have sinned have only judgment to wait for. Man who has sinned can have the hope of eternal life to wait for if he puts his trust in God.
And it is in God’s infinite brilliance of wisdom that He has made our salvation possible. His wisdom culminated in that single event in history 2000 years ago when His Son was nailed to a cross. The cross is the display. The cross is the glorious manifestation of God’s wisdom. In Jesus Christ on the cross the justice and the mercy of God meet. The holiness and the love of God meet. The weakness of man and the power of God meet. The sin of man and the salvation of God is met there and only there. The cross is the divine answer to reconciling the offending sinful man to the holy and righteous God. For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing….we preach Christ crucified, foolishness to the Gentiles…the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom…”
This brings us back to our text: It is the wisdom of God’s mercy, grace, forgiveness that is lavished on us, not on angels. There is no hope for Satan and his demons. Christ became a man, not an angel. Christ took man’s sins on Himself when He died on the cross, not the sins of angels. The cross is not the hope of salvation for Satan like it is for us. The cross is instead the sentencing of Satan and the seal of his own doom. There is no redemption, no forgiveness, no grace, no mercy for him or for those who follow him. But there is for us who have put our hope in Jesus Christ and His cross. Revelation says that Hell has been prepared and is waiting for Satan and his demonic legions. But make no mistake, God has made enough room for all those among men who will also persist in their rebellion and reject His Anointed One, Jesus Christ Who is Lord.
WHAT ARE THEY WATCHING?
And so next we ask, What are they watching? Verse 10 says, as we have already been getting at, it is the Church. “It was God’s intent that through the Church…” We as the Church are meant to be watched. Paul already said in 2:7, “He has raised us up and seated us with Christ in the heavenly realms in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of His grace expressed in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.” We are in fact a glorious display, a most excellent exhibit, intended to be publicly portrayed for all of God’s creation to see and marvel at. We are the Bride. Like the crowd packed into a church for a wedding, all watching the Bride as she comes down the aisle, so are the eyes of all creation intent upon the Bride of Jesus Christ as she is passing through this world. What parade has ever been seen to be so glorious and so captivating as the parade of God’s people redeemed by the blood of Christ and passing by all the watching eyes of God’s creatures both visible and invisible?
There is nothing on earth that so captivates the attention of the unseen world right now than the Church of Jesus Christ. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 4, “For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like men condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to men.”
We are a sight being seen.
WHY ARE THEY WATCHING?
They are watching the Church because it is through Christ in the Church that God has displayed His “manifold wisdom”. This word is awesome. It means “many various colors” or “many various sides”. Just when you thought you were getting your mind around the wisdom of God more of His wisdom is displayed in even greater variety than before. It is like you keep walking around corners of God’s wisdom only to find another side that is more brilliant, more complex, more astounding, and more awe-inspiring than what you just saw before. And when you turn the corner again with His wisdom yet there you find another side. It has as many sides as an infinite diamond. You cannot exhaust God’s wisdom. You cannot trace it out. You cannot be bored with it. You cannot find anything more valuable. The angels are watching.
Look at His creation to see the many varied and many colored wisdom He has. Look at the unlimited creativity He has shown in the visible world, and, in the invisible world described in the Scriptures.
Above all look at the wisdom of the cross of Jesus Christ. In the cross is the intersection and harmonizing of God’s justice towards sin and mercy towards sinners. It is the display of His righteous hatred of sin and his righteous love of sinners. It is the only other place where the holy wrath of God could be poured out and yet pardon sinful men. Wisdom to be just towards sin and to justify those guilty of sin. Angels look on the Church because we are those who have been justified. Angels look on because they can only look. They cannot participate in the God’s plan of grace and forgiveness. They have to look at the Church to see what God’s forgiveness of sins looks like.
Conclusion:
Let’s finish with 2 applications
1) Have you received forgiveness for your sins? Have you looked to the Son of God to find the unsearcheable riches of God’s grace offered to you? Have you put your trust in Jesus Christ? Why not? God has offered you something that he has not offered angels who sinned. You have the chance to be saved, something fallen angels have no chance of. Why would you pass by only to go to the same place that God has prepared for Satan and all the angels who have rebelled against God?
2) You make known what you know. God is making His wisdom known to angels through us. Through you. Your life is meant to be a display of the wisdom of God. When we live our lives according to God’s wisdom, and not man’s, we are showing forth the riches of
Ephesians 9-11
Introduction:
We always have an audience. Have you ever been pumping gas and saw those little signs at the pump that say, “Smile, you’re on camera”? I remember one time I was on lunch break and filled up with gas. After I got back into the office a call came in that surprised me. It was the gas station I just filled up at. They said if I didn’t come back and pay they were going to call the cops. They had me on video pumping and taking off without paying! Well I was embarrassed because I had gotten away with it so many times before. (Just Kidding!). I usually pay at the pump with my card but this time I didn’t. Apparently I was distracted and just got in my car like I normally do and took off forgetting that this time I didn’t pay at the pump and had to go in. Not only did I forget to pay, I forgot to smile for the camera! They had me on video, but they knew me and where I worked so they called me up and it worked out. The Gas Bandit was caught.
We always have an audience. If you’re at the bank or the ATM your being watched. If you have little one’s you know there is no such thing as private potty breaks - little hands banging on the door and shouts demanding to know what you’re doing. We always have an audience.
A recent article from CNN in November describes the increasing efforts of governments to watch the electronic activities of society. In 2011 governments from around the world asked Google for private account data 18,000 times. In 2012 that number jumped to 21,000. And Google is very cooperative as they have admitted that they grant 90% of the requests they receive. The country that makes the most requests by far Google said is the U.S. A senior analyst for Google, Dorothy Chou, said “One thing is for sure: Government surveillance is on the rise.” What does this mean? It means that it is safe to assume that in much of our lives we are watched. We have an audience.
Did you know that the Church of Jesus Christ is being watched? Paul talks about this in our passage this morning. Today’s sermon is titled simply: “The Watching Worlds”. I want to divide it into 3 sections: 1) Who is watching? 2) What are they watching? 3) Why are they watching?
WHO IS WATCHING?
Who is watching? That question has two answers. In verses 8-9 Paul speaks of a human audience. He says he has been commissioned to preach to the Gentiles in verse 8 and then in verse 9 he says that it is his responsibility to make known the administration of this mystery to everyone. Paul is speaking of a human audience. In Acts 19 we find that when Paul was in Ephesus ministering it says “the word of the Lord spread widely and grew in power”. He says in Colossians 1:23, “This is the gospel that you have heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven..” Through the ministry of Paul, God was making known the mystery that he has kept hidden in Himself throughout history.
We have been learning of this mystery over the last 2 chapters. The mystery is that Jew and Gentile are now brought together into one body – the Church. As a result, both are sharers together in the inheritance and the promise that is in Christ. No longer is there division between Jew and Gentile like there was before. Now, both come to God by faith in Christ (2:8-9; 4:5), both have been forgiven through the shed blood of Christ (1:7; 2:13), both are joined together to make a new man (2:15; 3:6), bother have equal access to the Father (2:18; 3:12), both have the Holy Spirit (1:13-14; 2:18, 22), both have been blessed with every spiritual blessing in Christ in the heavenly realms (1:3), and both will be made a cosmic display of the riches of God’s grace and kindness in the ages to come (2:7).
This mystery was not known about in the past before Christ and the NT Apostles. Gentile salvation was known about, but, Jew and Gentile being brought together and united into the same society without Jew having privilege over the Gentile was absolutely unthinkable, and unheard of. But while men could not imagine such a thing, it is exactly what God had been keeping as His secret until the time to reveal it arrived.
And when the time came, He continued the furthering of His own eternal purpose whereby He unfolded yet another layer of His secret plan. This plan Paul mentioned in 1:9-10 when he says, “And God made known the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment – to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.” God is working out His plans that He designed to be accomplished in and through His Son Jesus Christ. Everything in heaven and on earth will be summed up and headed up by Jesus Christ. This includes Jew, this includes Gentile, this includes the Church, this includes the nations, this includes the angels of various orders and ranks, the powers, principalities, authorities and rulers in the heavenly realms, both holy and evil.
In chapter 3 Paul says that this mystery of Jew and Gentile coming together is something that God revealed to Him. God made it known to Paul, and, this was for the purpose of Paul making it known to others. “I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace given me through the working of his power. Although I am the least of all God’s people this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery…” Paul’s work was for the watching world of mankind.
But in verse 10 we learn of another audience. This audience transcends the world we live in. This audience is not part of this world but they are watching this world. This audience is not human, but they are watching humans. This audience is the angelic audience that is observing, studying, watching, and looking at the work of God in this world. They are the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms. He spoke of angels in chapter 1 when he said, “Christ was raised from the dead and seated at God’s right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given..” He speaks of the fallen angels in chapter 6 when he says, “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” Now Paul says here in 3:10 that the angels are watching God’s work in this world, “It was God’s intent to make known the manifold wisdom of God to the rulers and authorities of the heavenly realms.” What God is doing is transcending my little life. What God is doing is transcending this little church. What God is doing transcends the whole Church from Pentecost until today. What God is doing is showing forth to angels the infinite andunsearchable riches of His wisdom through a body called the Church.
I wondered why Paul mentions here that the angels are an intended audience. Then I thought, well, maybe if we know a little about angels we can see why. What can we know about angels? Angels are spiritual beings that have been created by God. They are higher than mankind, that is, they are more powerful and more intelligent. There are holy elect angels and there are fallen angels called demons. The fallen angels fell when they joined their leader, Satan, in rebelling against God. The holy elect angels are messengers and servants of God. Hebrews 1:14 says, “Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?”
If you were to begin studying angels you would see very soon that angels have a particular interest in God’s salvation of sinful man. That verse in Hebrews says that they serve those who will inherit salvation. But listen now to what Peter says when he talks about salvation of men and how the angels have been interested in seeing it happen, “Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow. It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven.” (1 Peter 1:10-12) And then, seemingly out of nowhere Peter throws this next statement in: “Even angels long to look into these things.” These things? What are these things?
He is referring to man’s salvation, salvation that prophets foretold but didn’t fully understand, salvation through the gospel that was preached by men in the power of the Holy Spirit. Angels along with the prophets of old have been longing to look into and understand these things concerning the coming Savior and the salvation He was bringing for man. They didn’t know. They were kept in the dark. They were uninformed. They didn’t know how it was going to happen or really even what was going to happen.
Why are the angels longing to look into these things of salvation for mankind? Because it was an angel, a fallen angel that deceived man into sinning against God and making it necessary for God to have to save man (Gen. 3:1-7). It is fallen angels today who masquerade to men as angels of light and truth but are liars (2 Cor. 11: ). It is fallen angels who today that will not quit trying to deceive through their disseminating of false religions in this world – religions whose source is demonic and which have no power to save (1 Tim. 4:1-2). They bring false gospels into the world (Gal. 1:6-9). It is a fallen angel who blinds the eyes of the unbelievers so that they cannot see the light of the glorious gospel in the face of Jesus Christ so that they could be saved (2 Cor. 4:4). Satan and his demonic, fallen angels have not stopped and will not stop their lying, scheming, assaulting, murdering campaign against mankind to keep every last man and woman they can from taking the free salvation God has offered to man but has not offered to demons.
Satan and his angels sinned but unlike sinful man they are not offered salvation. God has no plan to spare any angel who has sinned. 2 Peter 2:4 says, “For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment.” Angels who have sinned have only judgment to wait for. Man who has sinned can have the hope of eternal life to wait for if he puts his trust in God.
And it is in God’s infinite brilliance of wisdom that He has made our salvation possible. His wisdom culminated in that single event in history 2000 years ago when His Son was nailed to a cross. The cross is the display. The cross is the glorious manifestation of God’s wisdom. In Jesus Christ on the cross the justice and the mercy of God meet. The holiness and the love of God meet. The weakness of man and the power of God meet. The sin of man and the salvation of God is met there and only there. The cross is the divine answer to reconciling the offending sinful man to the holy and righteous God. For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing….we preach Christ crucified, foolishness to the Gentiles…the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom…”
This brings us back to our text: It is the wisdom of God’s mercy, grace, forgiveness that is lavished on us, not on angels. There is no hope for Satan and his demons. Christ became a man, not an angel. Christ took man’s sins on Himself when He died on the cross, not the sins of angels. The cross is not the hope of salvation for Satan like it is for us. The cross is instead the sentencing of Satan and the seal of his own doom. There is no redemption, no forgiveness, no grace, no mercy for him or for those who follow him. But there is for us who have put our hope in Jesus Christ and His cross. Revelation says that Hell has been prepared and is waiting for Satan and his demonic legions. But make no mistake, God has made enough room for all those among men who will also persist in their rebellion and reject His Anointed One, Jesus Christ Who is Lord.
WHAT ARE THEY WATCHING?
And so next we ask, What are they watching? Verse 10 says, as we have already been getting at, it is the Church. “It was God’s intent that through the Church…” We as the Church are meant to be watched. Paul already said in 2:7, “He has raised us up and seated us with Christ in the heavenly realms in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of His grace expressed in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.” We are in fact a glorious display, a most excellent exhibit, intended to be publicly portrayed for all of God’s creation to see and marvel at. We are the Bride. Like the crowd packed into a church for a wedding, all watching the Bride as she comes down the aisle, so are the eyes of all creation intent upon the Bride of Jesus Christ as she is passing through this world. What parade has ever been seen to be so glorious and so captivating as the parade of God’s people redeemed by the blood of Christ and passing by all the watching eyes of God’s creatures both visible and invisible?
There is nothing on earth that so captivates the attention of the unseen world right now than the Church of Jesus Christ. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 4, “For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like men condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to men.”
We are a sight being seen.
WHY ARE THEY WATCHING?
They are watching the Church because it is through Christ in the Church that God has displayed His “manifold wisdom”. This word is awesome. It means “many various colors” or “many various sides”. Just when you thought you were getting your mind around the wisdom of God more of His wisdom is displayed in even greater variety than before. It is like you keep walking around corners of God’s wisdom only to find another side that is more brilliant, more complex, more astounding, and more awe-inspiring than what you just saw before. And when you turn the corner again with His wisdom yet there you find another side. It has as many sides as an infinite diamond. You cannot exhaust God’s wisdom. You cannot trace it out. You cannot be bored with it. You cannot find anything more valuable. The angels are watching.
Look at His creation to see the many varied and many colored wisdom He has. Look at the unlimited creativity He has shown in the visible world, and, in the invisible world described in the Scriptures.
Above all look at the wisdom of the cross of Jesus Christ. In the cross is the intersection and harmonizing of God’s justice towards sin and mercy towards sinners. It is the display of His righteous hatred of sin and his righteous love of sinners. It is the only other place where the holy wrath of God could be poured out and yet pardon sinful men. Wisdom to be just towards sin and to justify those guilty of sin. Angels look on the Church because we are those who have been justified. Angels look on because they can only look. They cannot participate in the God’s plan of grace and forgiveness. They have to look at the Church to see what God’s forgiveness of sins looks like.
Conclusion:
Let’s finish with 2 applications
1) Have you received forgiveness for your sins? Have you looked to the Son of God to find the unsearcheable riches of God’s grace offered to you? Have you put your trust in Jesus Christ? Why not? God has offered you something that he has not offered angels who sinned. You have the chance to be saved, something fallen angels have no chance of. Why would you pass by only to go to the same place that God has prepared for Satan and all the angels who have rebelled against God?
2) You make known what you know. God is making His wisdom known to angels through us. Through you. Your life is meant to be a display of the wisdom of God. When we live our lives according to God’s wisdom, and not man’s, we are showing forth the riches of
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